Who are the individuals who have made great contributions to the comic book arts? Who are the writers, artists, editors, publishers and others who have plied their craft in insightful ways? The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide presents The Overstreet Hall of Fame. We’ll take a look at one of our inductees each week in Scoop.

Born July 9, 1926 in Asheville, North Carolina, Murphy Anderson began his life-long career in comic books in 1944 working at Fiction House, where he pencilled and inked for several years. Beginning in the Golden Age, he worked steadily for a number of companies in the industry, including Ziff-Davis, and DC Comics (where he would become a mainstay with work spanning five decades).

He worked also on newspaper strips, notably including taking over the reins of the Buck Rogers strip from creator Dick Calkins, and he also produced the military’s P.S. Magazine (following Will Eisner and preceding Joe Kubert, both also Overstreet Hall of Fame members).

Anderson helped to propel the Silver Age of DC Comics with work on such characters as Adam Strange, The Atom, Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, and many others, including his inks over artists Curt Swan and Carmine Infantino. Widely regarded as a gentleman of the old school, Murphy Anderson was a member of the first class inducted into The Overstreet Hall of Fame in 2006.

If you’d like to get a copy of The Overstreet Hall of Fame, it’s available from the Gemstone Publishing website.